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Capital crimes series volume 18
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English
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Asked to investigate an American pharmaceutical firm that may be using a German company as a front to avoid the U.S. scientific embargo of Cuba, Max Pauling is caught in a scheme to seize control of some groundbreaking medical research.
2) Terminal
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English
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At a prestigious Florida medical center, brain cancer patients are treated with a one-hundred-percent success rate. Sean Murphy, a young medical student, finds it hard to believe. Is it a miracle cure? Or the biggest con job in the history of medicine?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
4) The proposal
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English
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While attending a writer's conference in Washington, D.C., Theodora Russell gets a call from an editor who wants to discuss her proposal. During their meeting, however, Theodora discovers that the editor actually wants Theodore Russell and his latest novel. Before she can correct the misunderstanding, Theodora becomes intrigued by the proposal tossed into her lap-a proposal that links breast cancer with first-pregnancy abortions. Determined to do...
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Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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A medical thriller in the world of breast cancer research. It begins when two researchers develop a new treatment based on a drug invented in Japan before World War II. No sooner done, than the backstabbing begins as people vie for fame and funding, some even stooping to sabotage. By the author of Hoopla.
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
This Living and Immortal Thing inhabits a world of medicine, research, cancer and death. Its disillusioned and darkly funny narrator is an Irish oncologist, who is searching for a scientific breakthrough in the lab of a New York hospital while struggling with his failing marriage and his growing alienation within the city's urban spaces. Tending to the health of his laboratory mice, he finds comfort in work that is measurable, results that are quantifiable....
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